SuiteWorld 2017

I attended my third NetSuite SuiteWorld in April. After two years of sitting in the round in San Jose we were at the Sands Expo and Convention Center in Las Vegas having outgrown the San Jose Convention Center.

With the recent purchase, Oracle was the elephant in the room. Mark Hurd, the CEO of Oracle, did a good job easing concerns, basically saying that they are going to leave NetSuite alone. It is now a global business unit of Oracle and that there is going to be "NetSuite and Oracle forever". And there was actually less legalize instead of more. Instead of have a full page of forward looking statement there was now only a paragraph. Oracle's global infrastructure and localization abilities are already being put to use to expand NetSuite.

They are continuing their development of the Software Development Framework (SDF). With now local development environments and command line tools it is getting closer to modern development best practices. I am also realizing more of the benefits a modern cloud architecture instead of some competitors hosted on premise solutions. Our upgrades continue to be smooth with only needing to add our new custom fields to a couple of custom forms an upgrade. From other experiences, upgrades themselves are large projects that get put off which then makes them even harder since at some point you will need to upgrade.

There new SuiteSuccess tools that are currently for two sub verticals ease the implementation which is definitely needed. Bookstores being one of the sub verticals with my home town University Bookstore being an early adopter.

See http://www.netsuitesuiteworld.com for highlights and keynotes.